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General Fiction

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Henry Handel Richardson - Getting of Wisdom

The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on Henry Handel Richardson's experiences of her own school, the Prebysterian...

Chip and 9 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. She suggested...

Alex Foster and 14 more 9 hours 46 minutes

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Psychology

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Sigmund Freud - Dream Psychology

Not a few serious-minded students, [...], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud's dream psychology. The book in which he originally offered to the world his interpretation of dreams was as...

David Barnes and 6 more 6 hours 4 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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George MacDonald - Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood

George MacDonald is mainly known for his fantasy works and fairy tales such as At the Back of the North Wind and the Princess and the Goblin. However, during his life he was more famous for many more realistic...

Bookworm and 13 more 7 hours 5 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Charles Wayland Towne - Foolish Dictionary

«The Foolish Dictionary» was written by «Gideon Wurdz» (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 1904. According to the beginning of the book, it is «An exhausting work of reference to un-certain...

Maddie and 10 more 1 hour 45 minutes

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M. M. Mangasarian - Truth About Jesus. Is He a Myth?

The following work offers in book form the series of studies on the question of the historicity of Jesus, presented from time to time before the Independent Religious Society in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, 1909. No...

Steven Collins and 1 more 5 hours 40 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin

Among the most “banned” books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Stowe was a...

John Greenman 18 hours 6 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - Mother Goose in Prose

Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of these nursery rhymes are complete tales in themselves. There are others...

Barbara Wedge and 12 more 4 hours 46 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Isabella L. Bird - Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was travelling she was almost always healthy. Her first trip, in 1854, took her to...

Availle 12 hours 56 minutes

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Poetry

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Dante Alighieri - Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened «Divina» by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature,...

Cori Samuel and 13 more 12 hours 23 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Samuel Butler - Odyssey

The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated to between 800 and 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to the...

Kirsten Ferreri and 13 more 11 hours 50 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and minds as a mysterious shadow, Heart of Darkness famously explores the rituals...

Kristin LeMoine 4 hours 10 minutes

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